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Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey was jailed for domestic violence
Though Charles Ramsey has become an Internet sensation for laudably rescuing three kidnapped women, The Smoking Gun on Wednesday uncovered the Cleveland man had a troubled and sordid past. The 43-year-old man has been convicted of three separate domestic violence charges for battering his wife Rochelle, who divorced him in…
What Do You Do When You See Domestic Violence? Call. The. Police.
Save the dogs (and the women). Sometimes I wonder if Cary Tennis is deliberately fucking with us with his advice column. I don’t know why people write him. The latest edition of his column has a letter that’s as horrifying as his response is glib. A bit of the letter:…
Ex-cop guns down wife after she filed horrifying domestic violence report
A former Pennsylvania state trooper gunned down his estranged wife in the middle of a Philipsburg supermarket on Thursday and then turned his weapon on himself, authorities told The Associated Press. Police said that Mark R. Miscavish, 51, who retired from the force in 2011, used a shotgun to murder…
Arizona man guilty of shooting girlfriend in the head with assault rifle
An Arizona man with a history of domestic violence on Monday was found guilty of killing his girlfriend by shooting her in the head with a military-style assault rifle. After less than three days of deliberations, a Maricopa County Superior Court jury found Eric Coulter, 20, guilty of manslaughter for…
Colorado sheriff downplays domestic violence to defend gun ownership
A Colorado sheriff this week attacked legislation to ban domestic abusers from having guns by suggesting the crime could be committed by merely breaking a framed photograph. At a town hall meeting on Thursday, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa blasted new gun laws that are expected to be signed…
Survey: Half of all young people know a victim of sexual assault or domestic violence
A survey released Wednesday by the advocacy coalition No More found that 51 percent of young people ages 15 to 22 know someone who has experienced domestic violence or sexual assault. The survey, one of the first of its kind to quantify dating violence among young people, found that 44…
Former wife: NRA official banned from carrying gun after ‘years of domestic violence’
The former wife of a top official with the National Rifle Association in New York says that “years of domestic violence” caused a judge to bar the NRA field representative from carrying a gun. The New York Daily News on Wednesday reported that police has confiscated an arsenal of 39…
Photo Essay Shows How Abusers Manipulate Victims
Updated to add: The House is set to finally pass the Violence Against Women Act today. Some Republicans are still stubbornly refusing to vote for it, including Tom McClintock, who specifically objects to it because he believes that the best response to domestic violence is “attempting to resolve and…
Conservatives Have….Issues, Part One Million
Molly Ball of the Atlantic decided to delve into why it is that Republicans have caved into conservative pressure groups who oppose the Violence Against Women Act. The reasons that conservatives gave her were, she had to admit, shallow and idiotic and, if she delved in deeper (the claim that…
Why Was An Anti-Feminist Organization Using Senate Time to Sell Guns
Is most violence in the home the result of scary strangers coming to steal these? No. Gayle Trotter’s little marketing push trying to get women to buy more guns—remember, the underlying principle of all gun proponent testimony is that gun profits should always be growing—was definitely an amusing one, as…
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